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August 15th, 2008 07:00
can't boot, windows/system32/congig/system missing or corrupt
Dimension4600 Xp Pro
Hi,
a friend brought me his pc that won't boot anymore. It stop pretty quickly with the above message.
I have googled it to find MS kb/307545 warning about not trying the procedure if OEM...
What are the alternatives, if any, to a complete reformat?
Tks in advance
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August 20th, 2008 07:00
I now get early in boot process the dreaded:
A disk read error occurred
Press ctrl-Alt-Del
(which only bring you back to same black screen error)
Interestingly enough, I was not only able to go into Dell utility diagnostic, all relevant tests passed (can't boot OS & Windows blue screen)
Recovery console never asked me once for a p/w, but now gives me mostly ''access denied''.
Chkdsk /p & chkdsk /r both say: THE VOLUME APPEARS TO CONTAIN ONE OR MORE UNRECOVERABLE PROBLEMS
I have tried to put the problem hdd as a slave in another comp, getting: The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable
I have done a Knoppix cd, in the Konsole, tried this: ntfsfix /dev/sda2
Mounting volume...$MFT has invalid magic
ntfs_mft__load(): Failed
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
Failed to start volume: Input/output error
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: Input/output error
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk
Any hope left if not to repair, at least to recover the data